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Rescuing Hubble: Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, John Trauger
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented the symposium Rescuing Hubble, on Wednesday, November 13, 2...
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 17 — Conditional Stability
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Topics include: conditionally stable systems; experimental configurations of a demonstration test system; nonlinear compensation; complementary emitter-follower pair. Recorded: 1985.
Artificial “Skin” — Ioannis Yannas (1982)
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MIT Professor of Biological Engineering Ioannis V. Yannas discusses his pioneering work developing the first synthetic skin in collaboration with John F. Burke at Massachusetts General Hospital during the 1970s and ea...
Philip Morrison and Lester Thurow — Symposium on Forecasting the Future Across Industries (1988)
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Physicist Philip Morrison (Institute Professor) and economist Lester Thurow (Dean of the Sloan School of Management) address senior executives at the "Symposium on Forecasting the Future Across Industries: Tech/ Scien...
“Big Magnets” (1961) — Science Reporter TV Series
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Dr. Benjamin Lax discusses the future of the nascent National Magnetic Laboratory at MIT (of which he is the director) in fields such as biomagnetics, along with MIT professor Francis Bitter, research biologist Dr. H....
Atmosphere as an Intersection Part 1
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A series of lectures that each focus on the atmosphere’s interaction with a different component of the Earth system. Recorded 28 January 2013.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 04 — Search: Depth First, Hill Climbing, etc.
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Recorded September 20, 2010.
The BICEP2 Results And What They Mean: Alan Gurth
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Alan Guth (MIT), Scott Hughes (MIT), John Kovac (Harvard), and Max Tegmark (MIT) joined in an event to discuss the results of BICEP2, and the background for understanding the results and their implications. Recorded ...
1993 MIT Commencement Address — President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Dr. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Constitutional President of the United Mexican States, gives the 1993 MIT Commencement Address on May 28, 1993.
“The Thinking Machine” (1961) — MIT Centennial Film
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Screen actor David Wayne chats with MIT Professor Jerome Wiesner on developments in computer research and artificial intelligence, as part of the "Tomorrow" television series produced by CBS for MIT on occasion of MIT...
